Word: duvalierization
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The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided into two nations-Haiti, where the politics is bad; and the Dominican Republic, where it is worse. Over the past four years, Haiti's President François Duvalier, a onetime physician, has done little to improve the lot of a country...
Last week Duvalier called the citizens of his impoverished Negro nation to the polls, ostensibly to choose a new Parliament. Duvalier, like all strongmen, thought Parliament talkative, unfriendly and obstructionist (he eviled five members, jailed five others). Then he dissolved both houses and decreed the election of a single, 58...
The strongman did not run officially, but the words "Doctor François Duvalier-President" appeared on every ballot throughout the republic. After it was all over, Haitians learned to their surprise that they had not only elected a new Parliament but-announced Haiti's attorney general-had also...
Last week's final declaration of war had its genesis in a church-supported student strike against the strong-arm regime last November. Duvalier replied by closing the schools for Christmas a month early and expelling the then ranking churchman. He drew up a law that held parents responsible...
By Duvalier's lights, there was no further point in arguing He readied his U.S. equipped and Marine-trained gendarmery, called in his sports-shirted bullyboys and cracked down on the church. At week's end Duvalier suspended a shoot-on-sight curfew ordered earlier, but showed no...